The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) will host a retrospective of abstract painter and printmaker David Diao, on view September 19 through November 15, 2015. The retrospective brings together 115 artworks drawn from collections spanning North America, Europe, and Asia, the artist’s largest exhibition to date.
An article appearing on the September 2015 issue of Modern Painters reads, "the body of work he has produced over this period, spanning large-scale abstraction, Conceptualism, and
a turn toward visual and textual citation, represents less
the efforts of a hermetic allegiance than it does working through the intellectual history of painting and visual art in the last half-century."
Born in Chengdu in 1943, David Diao left mainland China for Hong Kong in 1949, later settling in America where he has lived for nearly six decades.
